Last week Amazon announced a lower commissions plan effective today for Amazon Affiliates. The decrease for Kindle books is more than 50%. Therefore, we are adjusting our posting schedule.
The first post on the website will include links to the Kindle Daily Deal and other Kindle book sales, including monthly romance deals, children’s books and other special offerings.
We will prepare posts of books in this manner: Mysteries for $1.99 each; Non-Fiction for $1.99 each and other logical groupings. We’ll continue to share major news about Kindle and Kindle products.
We suggest that you stop by the site each day to link to the Daily Deal and check in to see the great reads at great prices. We recommend that you follow us via Twitter.
Free books will be posted when offered by major publishers.
We appreciate each and every one of you and trust you understand that with diminishing returns, we are making the best decision for us.

The posts below are examples of our new look. We will be adding links to the Daily Deal post in the coming days. How we do the site in this new environment will evolve in the coming weeks.

9 Comments Already!

Well Ladies, I’m sorry to hear this! You do such a great job with your site. I understand on the surface of what Amazon is doing…they want to keep more of the pie. HOWEVER, what I think they are failing to understand is by sites like yours, they actually increase their business & profits, not hurt them.

It’s because of DCR that I’ve gotten some great books at fantastic prices that I NEVER would have been aware of otherwise. Outside of the Daily Deal, I can’t be the ONLY one that finds Amazon’s site difficult to search for great prices on Kindle books, especially if it’s a well known work or something by a famous author. They certainly don’t make it known to the average or regular visitor to the website. E-reader IQ helps to track books that you know you’d like to purchase but only if they were cheaper; but because of DCR I’ve gotten books, that I wouldn’t have given a second thought to until seeing the great sale price. (Example)…I got the 7 book set plus 1 bonus book of the Chronicles of Narnia for $12.00. It currently is around $30.00 & I’ve seen it as high as $50.00. Never would have known about it, if it weren’t for here. So there’s a sale Amazon gained….because I never would have found that deal on my own.

I look at it, similar to an auto dealership. The owner needs the salespeople to help move their product, otherwise the inventory just sits there. Keep up the great work & I appreciate all you do!! Thanks!

We are happy that we have led you to great deals on classics such as the Chronicles of Narnia and others that you would have never found. We have always taken the position that if a reader has to go looking for books to buy, he or she is not reading. If the deals are put before them, they can select what appeals, read and come back for next read quicker. It may only be 4-5 more books a year, but the reader is that much more engaged in literature and, in the end, Amazon wins too.

We will keep posting great deals, just with a different approach. We’ve been doing this for seven years and it is a habit that is not easily broken. Keep coming back and keep looking for the posts that appeal to you.

I hope to post a Housekeeping post that fleshes out other thoughts on Amazon’s decision.

I was about to write a diatribe about this topic, but Carol said everything I needed to say plus more! I’m a fan of “series” books (especially mysteries), and Amazon has no idea of the amount of series books that you ladies have enticed me into buying… and that’s not just one sale for Amazon, it’s many sales. Too bad they can’t understand that. Anyway, I will just say again, as I have many times, I love coming to your site every day and will continue to do so… you ladies are awesome, so helpful, always respond to every comment we send, and we appreciate you so VERY VERY much!!

We’ll keep posting, but wanted to make all of you aware of why we were making the changes. I think we will all do fine after the intial adjustment. If you visit other associates’ sites, you may see changes there, too.

I agree; I probably buy most of my books after seeing them here. Amazon’s site is just too bogged down, and you have to really spend a lot of time searching.
But I come here, see something that looks interesting, click on the link, and if it looks like something I’d read, i buy.

Sorry to hear about Amazon and they seem to be doing that to a lot of different sites… it is a shame that they can’t understand that what your site and others do is equivalent to word of mouth.
You pick up a lot more business when others tout how good you are.
I have become totally frustrated with trying to find good deals on the Amazon site itself.. it is like they don’t want you to find them except for the most popular items they promote or the kindle unlimited or prime stuff.
That is why I love your site so much… I can check it out without doing “research” .. that takes time and I end up not getting as many books as I would otherwise.
Thanks for all the hard work and hope you can still make it profitable for yourselves.

Thank you for your comments. We agree with you and are puzzled by Amazon’s actions. Perhaps they believe what they save in commissions will be offset by what they lose in sales. Time will tell if their business plan holds water.